Saturday, May 16, 2009

Protesters call for Reform of Gender Disorders at American Psychiatric Association Convention

What: San Francisco, California. A coalition of transgender community advocates and mental health providers will gather in San Francisco May 18 to protest how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is handling revisions to “gender identity disorder” and related diagnoses in their fifth edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-V).

Where: At the corner of 4th Street and Howard Street –Outside the Moscone Center

6 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I wish I lived there b/c I'd go! GID needs to be removed from the DSM, it was a shitty trade off for the removal of homosexuality and the gays have done little to nothing to support the removal of GID and empower the human rights of transgender people... the LGBT community can do better when it comes to helping each other!

'Gender Identity Disorder' should be seen by the LGBT community as an extension of the pathology of queer identity. Gays have been de-pathologized, but GID is the "extreme sissy disorder" it is really ridiculous.

Mewi I think it is mental in the sense that gender identity is in the brain. Our genitals don't define our gender identity. It isn't a psychological disorder, people are born this way. I wouldn't call it a biological or genetic disorder, just because it's different from the norm doesn't make it disordered, it is just a variation of the human condition.

Reflected I am very happy to hear about France, on the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia, great news!